MR. Tyrold was well aware that to keep from Sir Hugh the affliction of Camilla, he must keep from him Camilla herself: for though her sighs she could suppress, and her tears disperse1, her voice had lost its tone, her countenance2 its gaiety; her eyes no longer sparkled, her very smiles betrayed anguish3. He was the last to wonder at her sufferings, for Edgar was nearly as dear to him as herself; but he knew not, that, added to this annihilation of happiness, her peace was consumed by her secret knowledge of the blows yet impending4 for himself and for her uncle. Concealment5, always abhorrent6 to her nature, had, till now, been unknown even to her thoughts; and its weight, from a species of culpability7 that seemed attached to its practice, was, at times, more dreadful to bear than the loss even of Edgar himself. The latter blackened every prospect8 of felicity; but the former, still more tremendous to the pure principles in which she had been educated, seemed to strike even at her innocence9. The first wish of an ingenuous10 mind is to anticipate even enquiry; the feeling, therefore, that most heavily weighs it down, is any fear of detection.
While they were at breakfast the following morning, the servant brought in the name of Dr. Marchmont.
Camilla felt nearly fainting. Why he was come-whence-whether Edgar accompanied him-or sent by him any message-whether he were returned to Beech12 Park-or sailed for the Continent-were doubts that pressed so fast, and so vehemently13 upon her mind, that she feared to quit the room lest she should meet Edgar in the passage, and feared still more to continue in it, lest Dr. Marchmont should enter without him. Mr. Tyrold, who participated in all her feelings, and shared the same ideas, gently committed her to Lavinia, and went into his study to the doctor.
His own illusion was there quickly destroyed. The looks of Dr. Marchmont boded14 nothing that was happy. They wore not their customary expression. The gravity of Mr. Tyrold shewed a mind prepared for ill news, if not already oppressed with it, and the doctor, after a few general speeches, delivered the letter from Edgar.
Mr. Tyrold received it with a secret shuddering15: ‘Where,’ he said, ‘is Mandlebert at present?’
‘I believe, by this time-at the Hague.’
This sentence, with the grieved, yet still air and tone of voice which accompanied it, was death at once to every flattering hope: he immediately read the letter, which, conceived in the tenderest terms of reverence17 and affection, took a short and simple, though touchingly18 respectful leave of the purposed connection, and demolished19 at once every distant view of future conciliation20.
He hung his head a moment, and sighed from the bottom of his heart; but the resignation which he summoned upon every sorrow was never deaf to his call, and when he had secretly ejaculated a short and silent prayer for fortitude21 to his beloved wife, he turned calmly to the doctor, and began conversing22 upon other affairs.
Dr. Marchmont presumed not to manifest the commiseration23 with which he was filled. He saw the true Christian24, enduring with humility25 misfortune, and the respectable parent supporting the dignity of his daughter by his own. To the first character, complaint was forbidden; to the second, it would have been degrading. He looked at him with veneration26, but to spare further useless and painful efforts, soon took leave.
Mr. Tyrold, shaking hands with him, said as they were parting, ‘when you write to Mandlebert, assure him of my constant affection. The world, Dr. Marchmont is too full of real evil, for me at least, to cause one moment of unnecessary uneasiness to any of its poor pilgrims. ’Tis strange, my dear doctor, this is not more generally considered, since the advantage would be so reciprocal from man to man. But wrapt up in our own short moment, we forget our neighbour’s long hour! and existence is ultimately embittered27 to all, by the refined susceptibility for ourselves that monopolizes29 our feelings.’
Doctor Marchmont, who in this last sentence construed30 a slight reflection upon Edgar, expressively31 answered, ‘Our sensibility for others is not always dormant32, because not apparent.–How much of worth and excellence33 may two characters separately possess, where yet there are disuniting particles which impede34 their harmonizing with each other!’
Mr. Tyrold, powerfully struck, saw now the general nature of the conceptions which had caused this lamented35 breach36. He could not concur37, but he would not attempt to controvert38; opinion in this case must have even the precedence of justice. If Edgar thought his daughter of a disposition39 with which his own could not sympathise, it were vain to expatiate40 upon her virtues41 or her sweetness; that one doubt previously42 taken might mar11 their assimilating efficacy. Comprehending, therefore, the cause at large, he desired no detail; the words of Dr. Marchmont, though decisive, were not offensive, and they parted perfect friends, each perceiving, yet forgiving, that each cast upon the other the error of false reasoning; Edgar to the one, and Camilla to the other, appearing faultless in the separation.
But not in the tasks which succeeded were their offices as easily to be compared. Dr. Marchmont wrote to Edgar that all was quietly relinquished43, and his measures were honourably44 acquitted45; while Mr. Tyrold, shut up in his study, spent there some of the severest minutes of his life, in struggling for the equanimity46 he coveted47 to pronounce to his daughter this last doom48. Pity for her suspence accelerated his efforts, and he then sent for her down stairs.
His utmost composure, in such an interview, was highly necessary for both. The pale and trembling Camilla advanced with downcast eyes; but when he took her in his arms, and kissed her, a sudden ray of hope shot across her quick imagination, and she looked up: an instant was now sufficient to rectify49 her mistake. The tenderness of her father wore no air of congratulation, it was the mere50 offspring of compassion51, and the woe52 with which it was mixt, though mild, though patient, was too potent53 to require words for explanation.
The glance sufficed; her head dropt, her tears in torrents54 bathed his bosom55; and she retired56 to Lavinia while yet neither of them had spoken.
Mr. Tyrold, contented57 with virtuous58 exertions60, demanded not impossibilities; he left to nature that first grief which too early exhortation61 or controul rather inflames62 than appeases63. He then brought her back to his apartment.
He conjured64 her, there, to remember that she grieved not alone; that where the tears flowed not so fast from the eyes, the sources were not dry whence they sprung, and that bridled65 sorrow was sometimes the most suffering.
‘Alas, my dearest father, to think you mourn too-and for me!-will that lessen66 what I feel?’
‘Yes, my dear child, by a generous duty it will point out to watch that the excess of one affliction involve you not in another.’
‘What a motive,’ she answered, ‘for exertion59! If the smallest part of your happiness-of my honoured mother’s -depends upon mine, I shall be unhappy, I think, no more!’
A gush67 of tears ill accorded with this fond declaration; but Mr. Tyrold, without noticing them, kindly68 replied, ‘Let your filial affection, my child, check the inordinacy of your affliction, and I will accept with pleasure for your virtuous mother, and with thanks for myself, the exertion which, beginning for our sakes, may lead you to that self denial which is the parent of our best human actions, and approximates us the most to what is divine.’
Broken-hearted as was Camilla, her sorrows would, at least apparently69, have abated70 from consolation71 so tender, if all she felt had been known; if no latent and lurking72 evil had hung upon her spirits, defeating all argument, and blighting73 all comfort, by the cruel consciousness of concealed74 mischief75, which while incessantly76 she studied the best moment for revealing, accident might prematurely77 betray.
Upon this subject her thoughts were unremittingly bent78, till, in a few days time, she received a letter from Mrs. Mittin, informing her she had just seen the money-lender, Mr. Clykes, who, finding her so much under age, would not undertake the business for less than ten per cent. nor without a free premium79 of at least twenty pounds.
The latter demand, so entirely80 out of her power to grant, gave to her the mental strength she had yet sought in vain; and determining to end this baneful81 secret, she seized her own first moment of emotion to relate to her father the whole of her distresses82, and cast herself upon his mercy.
I shall be happier, she cried, much happier, as, with tottering83 steps, she hurried to the study; he will be lenient84, I know;-and even if not, what displeasure can I incur85 so severe as the eternal apprehension86 of doing wrong?
But her plan, though well formed, had fixed87 upon an ill-timed moment for its execution. She entered the room with an agitation88 which rather sought than shunned89 remark, that some enquiry might make an opening for her confession90: but Mr. Tyrold was intently reading a letter, and examining some papers, from which he raised not his eyes at her approach. She stood fearfully before him till he had done; but then, still not looking up, he leant his head upon his hand, with a countenance so disturbed, that, alarmed from her design, by the apprehension he had received some ill tidings from Lisbon, she asked, in a faint voice, if the foreign post were come in?
‘I hope not!’ he answered: ‘I should look with pain, at this moment, upon the hand of your unhappy mother!’
Camilla, affrighted, knew not now what to conjecture91; but gliding92 into her pocket the letter of Mrs. Mittin, stood suspended from her purpose.
‘What a reception,’ he presently added, ‘is preparing for that noblest of women when her exile may end! That epoch93, to which I have looked forward as the brightener of my every view upon earth-how is it now clouded!’
Giving her, then, the letter and papers; ‘The son,’ he said, ‘who once I had hoped would prove the guardian94 of his sisters, the honour of his mother’s days, the future prop95 of my own–See, Camilla, on how sandy a foundation mortal man builds mortal hopes!’
The letter was from a very respectable tradesman, containing a complaint that, for the three years Lionel had been at the University, he had never paid one bill, though he continually ordered new articles: and begging Mr. Tyrold would have the goodness to settle the accounts he enclosed; the young gentleman, after fixing a day for payment, having suddenly absconded96 without notice to any one.
‘The sum, you see,’ continued Mr. Tyrold, ‘amounts to one hundred and seventy-one pounds; a sum, for my income, enormous. The allowance I made this cruel boy, was not only adequate to all his proper wants, and reasonable desires, but all I could afford without distressing97 myself, or injuring my other children: yet it has served him, I imagine, but for pocket money! The immense sums he has extorted98 from both his uncles, must have been swallowed up at a gaming table. Into what wretched courses has he run! These bills, large as they are, I regard but as forerunners99 of others; all he has received he has squandered100 upon his vices101, and to-morrow, and the next day, and the next, I may expect an encreasing list of his debts, from his hatter, his hosier, his shoe-maker, his taylor,-and whoever he has employed.’
Camilla, overwhelmed with internal shame, yet more powerful, than grief itself, stood motionless. These expences appeared but like a second part of her own, with her milliner, her jeweller, and her haberdasher; which now seemed to herself not less wanton in extravagance.
Surprised by her entire silence, Mr. Tyrold looked up. Her cheeks, rather livid than pale, and the deep dismay of her countenance, extremely affected102 him. The kindness of his embraces relieved her by melting her into tears, though the speech which accompanied them was, to her consciousness, but reproach: ‘Let not your sisterly feelings thus subdue103 you, my dearest Camilla. Be comforted that you have given us no affliction yourself, save what we must feel for your own undeservedly altered prospects104. No unthinking imprudence, no unfeeling selfishness, has ever, for an instant, driven from your thoughts what you owe to your duty, or weakened your pleasure in every endearing filial tie. Let this cheer you, my child; and let us all try to submit calmly to our general disappointment!’
Praise thus ill-timed, rather probed than healed her wounds. Am I punished? am I punished? She internally exclaimed; but could not bear to meet the eyes of her father, whose indulgence she felt as if abusing, and whose good opinion seemed now but a delusion105. Again, he made her over to the gentle Lavinia for comfort, and fearing serious ill effects from added misery106, exerted himself, from this time, to appear chearful when she was present.
His predictions failed not to be fulfilled: the application made by one creditor107, soon reached every other, and urged similar measures. Bills, therefore, came in daily, with petitions for payment; and as Lionel still wanted a month or two of being of age, his creditors108 depended with confidence upon the responsibility of his father.
Nor here closed the claims springing from general ill conduct. Two young men of fashion, hard pressed for their own failures, stated to Mr. Tyrold the debts of honour owing them from Lionel: and three notorious gamesters, who had drawn109 in the unthinking youth to his ruin, enforced the same information, with a hint that, if they were left unsatisfied, the credit of the young man would fall the sacrifice of their ill treatment.
The absence of Mrs. Tyrold at this period, by sparing her daily difficulty as well as pain, was rejoiced in by her husband; though never so strongly had he wanted her aiding counsel, her equal interest, and her consoling participation110. Obliged to act without them, his deliberation was short and decisive for his measures, but long and painful for their means of execution. He at once determined111 to pay, though for the last time, all the trades people; but the manner of obtaining the money required more consideration.
The bills, when all collected, amounted to something above five hundred pounds, which was but one hundred short of his full yearly income.
Of this, he had always contrived112 to lay by an hundred pounds annually113, which sum, with its accumulating interest, was destined114 to be divided between Lavinia and Camilla. Eugenia required nothing; and Lionel was to inherit the paternal115 little fortune. The portion of Mrs. Tyrold, which was small, the estate of her father having been almost all entailed116 upon Mr. Relvil, was to be divided equally amongst her children.
To take from the little hoard117 which, with so tender a care, he had heaped for the daughters, so large a share for the son, and to answer demands so unduly118 raised, and ill deserved, was repulsive119 to his inclination120, and shocked his strong sense of equal justice. To apply to Mr. Relvil would be preposterous121; for though upon him dwelt all his ultimate hopes for Lionel, he knew him, at this moment, to be so suffering and so irritated by his means, that to hear of any new misdemeanours might incense122 him to an irrevocable disinheritance.
With regard to Sir Hugh, nothing was too much to expect from his generous kindness; yet he knew that his bountiful heart had always kept his income from overflowing123; and that, for three years past, Lionel had drained it without mercy. His preparations, also, for the double marriages had, of late, much straitened him. To take up even the smallest part of what, in less expensive times, he had laid by, he would regard as a breach of his solemn vow124, by which he imagined himself bound to leave Eugenia the full property she would have possessed125, had he died instantly upon making it. Reason might have shewn this a tie of supererogation; but where any man conceived himself obeying the dictates126 of his conscience, Mr. Tyrold held his motives127 too sacred for dispute.
The painful result of this afflicting128 meditation129, was laying before his daughters the whole of his difficulties, and demanding if they would willingly concur in paying their brother’s bills from their appropriate little store, by adopting an altered plan of life, and severe self-denial of their present ease and elegance130, to aid its speedy replacement131.
Their satisfaction in any expedient132 to serve their brother that seemed to fall upon themselves, was sincere, was even joyful133: but they jointly134 besought135 that the sum might be freely taken up, and deducted136 for ever more from the hoard; since no earthly gratification could be so great to them, as contributing their mite137 to prevent any deprivation138 of domestic enjoyment139 to their beloved parents.
His eyes glistened140, but not from grief; it was the pleasure of virtuous happiness in their purity of filial affection. But though he knew their sincerity141, he would not listen to their petition. ‘You are not yet,’ said he, ‘aware what your future calls may be for money. What I have yet been able to save, without this unexpected seizure142, would be inadequate143 to your even decent maintenance, should any accident stop short its encrease. Weep not, my dear children! my health is still good, and my prospect of lengthened144 life seems fair. It would be, however, a temporal folly145 as well as a spiritual presumption146, to forget the precarious147 tenure148 of human existence. My life, my dear girls, will be happier, without being shorter, for making provisions for its worldly cessation.’
‘But, Sir! but my father!’ cried Camilla, hanging over him, and losing in filial tenderness her personal distresses; ‘if your manner of living is altered, and my dear mother returns home and sees you relinquishing149 any of your small, your temperate150 indulgencies, may it not yet more embitter28 her sufferings and her displeasure for the unhappy cause? For her sake then, if not for ours’–
‘Do not turn away, dearest Sir!’ cried Lavinia; ‘what mother ever merited to have her peace the first study of her children, if it is not ours?’
‘O Providence151 benign152!’ said Mr. Tyrold, folding them to his heart, ‘how am I yet blessed in my children!–True and excellent daughters of my invaluable153 wife-this little narration154 is the solace155 I shall have to offer for the grief I must communicate.’
He would not, however, hearken to their proposition; his peace, he said, required not only immediate16 measures for replacing what he must borrow, but also that no chasm156 should have lieu in funding his usual annual sum for them. All he would accept was the same severe forbearance he should instantly practice himself, and which their mother, when restored to them, would be the first to adopt and improve. And this, till its end was answered, they would all steadily157 continue, and then, with chearful self-approvance, resume their wonted comforts.
Mr. Tyrold had too frequent views of the brevity of human life to postpone158, even from one sun to another, any action he deemed essential. A new general system, therefore, immediately pervaded159 his house. Two of the servants, with whom he best could dispense160, were discharged; which hurt him more than any other privation, for he loved, and was loved by every domestic who lived with him. His table, always simple though elegant, was now reduced to plain necessaries; he parted with every horse, but one to whose long services he held himself a debtor161; and whatever, throughout the whole economy of his small establishment, admitted simplifying, deducting162, or abolishment, received, without delay, its requisite163 alteration164 or dismission.
These new regulations were quietly, but completely, put in practice, before he would discharge one bill for his son; to whom, nevertheless, though his conduct was strict, his feelings were still lenient. He attributed not to moral turpitude165 his errours nor his crimes, but to the prevalence of ill example, and to an unjustifiable and dangerous levity166, which irresistibly167 led him to treat with mockery and trifling168 the most serious subjects. The punishment, however, which he had now drawn upon himself, would yet, he hoped, touch his heart.
But the debts called debts of honour, met not with similar treatment. He answered with spirited resentment169 demands he deemed highly flagitious, counselling those who sent them, when next they applied170 to an unhappy family to whose calamities171 they had contributed, to enquire172 first if its principles, as well as its fortune, made the hazards of gaming amongst its domestic responsibilities.
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